Northeast

Berklee College of Music is planning a $90 million bond sale to help finance construction of a performance center, dormitory and dining hall at its main Boston campus.

Fitch Ratings placed all outstanding notes of the Vermont Student Assistance Corp. 1995 bond resolution on negative rating watch.

Moody’s Investors Service has placed the Baa1 rating on Lackawanna County’s $232 million of outstanding general obligation bonds under review for possible downgrade.

The Allegheny County Sanitary Authority sold $92.2 million of tax-exempt refunding Series 2001 sewer revenue bonds on Wednesday.

Harrisburg’s City Council will vote on its latest financial receiver proposal at an Aug. 31 special legislative session.

The Empire State Development Corp.’s board of directors approved funding totaling $11.1 million last week, leveraging more than $354 million in investment across New York State.

Moody’s Investors Service has assigned a stable rating to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, two weeks before the nation’s largest technological research university plans to remarket its Series 2002E bonds as fixed rate, and sell $40 million of taxable debt through a private placement.

Upper Township employees had an alternative after voters rejected a proposed $9.5 million bond referendum to repair primary and middle schools: They made the fixes themselves.

Gov. Dannel Malloy has announced the members of a new task force that will review the effectiveness of Connecticut’s education cost-sharing grants and how it relates to state constitutional requirements.

New York's surplus has evaporated, state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said in a report for July that his office issued on Wednesday.